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Home Front: Viet Nam and Families at War
Home Front: Viet Nam and Families at War
Home Front: Viet Nam and Families at War
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When will the war finally come to an end? Home Front: Viet Nam and Families at War recounts the private ordeals of several families who bore the brunt of Americas war in Viet Nam. Their experiences, an ongoing tragedy since the last U.S. soldiers left Vietnamese soil, reveal the physical and psychological wounds of war wounds that dont discriminate between soldier and family. From the backwoods of Maine to the rugged wide open landscape of Montana, we meet a dozen soldiers and their families and hear their stories.

Author Willard D. Gray knows the fallout firsthand. His oldest son spent two years and eighteen consecutive days in Viet Nam as a BAMC trained medic, most of his tour served in the bush or in the grist mill of an evac. hospital. When Willards son returned home in April 1970 without an honorable discharge, the Gray family endured several months of tension, anger, and disappointment. Tommy Gray had come home a completely changed young man. Exhaustive efforts by his family to upgrade his discharge status and remove the stigma placed upon him and those closest to him ultimately failed to reunite the family. But Willards crusade on behalf of his son soon grew to include others in the community who had also been traumatized and marginalized by the war. A national tragedy became a personal quest. Others who had been left to their own devices after the war, with no help from the government or their local communities, surely needed support.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherXlibris US
Release dateMar 20, 2008
ISBN9781462841806
Home Front: Viet Nam and Families at War
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Willard D. Gray

Willard was born and raised in rural Illinois. He successfully completed a career in the Army and later owned his own automotive business. His previous work, a docu-novel entitled End of a Silence: Full Moon over Fox Prairie, offers a vivid retelling of a tumultuous event that occurred near his childhood home in the 1800s.

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